The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-31
DENNY has arrived, and the country is S;
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES is fond of spinning
a humming top
"RUDDYGoRE" has taken the British heart
more than the "Mikado.'
WHEN Mrs. Sherman goes shopping the Gen
eral always attends her and carries her satchel.
PHILADELPHIA Times: Among the crying
needs of the hour are babies that will cry little
less.
ARCHIBALD FORBES, the noted
spondent. has signed contract with Major Pond
to deliver fifty lectures in the United States
next fall.
MEDICINE for the removal of tape-worm
used with great success at Bellevue Hospital.
New York. is, for obvious reasons, called ''the
early bird"
Miss FRANCES WIZARDS book, "Woman and
Temperance" is being translated into Japanese
by Sho Nemoto brilliant young Japanese and
a student at Vermont College. new town in
Texas has been named for Miss Willard.
THE Empress Augusta gives every woman
servant in Prussia. who completes her fortieth
year of unbroken service in one family, gold
cross and diploma. bearing the imperial auto
graph signature. In eight years she has hon.
ored 1856 servants.
THE Jessup (Ga) Sentinel furnishes this
natural history note: 1.-TWO king snakes under.
took to swallow ground RATHER One COM
menced at his head and the other at his tail.
They swallowed until they met, and then swal-
lowed each other"
THE deacon's wife wanted to jot down the
text and, leaning over to her scapegrace nephew.
she whispered: Have you any cards about
your 'You can't play in church." was the sol
emn, reproving answer, and the good woman
was fustered that she forgot the text
WHRN the famous Vanderbilt fancy dress ball
| was occupying the attention of all New York,
there was much discussion in Wall street as to
the appropriate costumes, and so FORTH A bald
headed broker asked the late VIM. Travers to
| give him an idea for character II w-w-will,"
| said Travers, in his most serious tone.
''Sssugar your head and 60 as PIP pill"
| Forty years ago an ola lady in Baldwin, Fla.
| about to die. made her children promise not to
| bury her body. She threatened to haunt them
| if they did, and SO when she was dead they
| placed the body in stout coffin of Florida pine.
| placed it on the surface of the ground in the
| graveyard and built a strong log pen around it.
The log house is in good condition now, and so is
| the coffin within il.
| OF the three daughters whom Longfellow i'm
mortalzed in that beautiful poem, 1.-THE Twi-
| light Hour" Alice alone remains unmarried. She
| lives in the old 'Craigie House" at Cambridge
| with her bachelor uncle the Rev. Samuel Long
| fellow. Edith Lonefellow married Richard II.
Dana. Anna allegro Longfelow. the youngest
daughter, about two years ago. married Joseph
| G. Thorpe. .jr, a young Boston lawyer, and
| brother of Mrs. Ole Bull
| NJ. LABoUCHERE. in describing the scene at q
recent Queens drawing ROOM" says: ''Half-
| naked women shiverine in their carriages for
hours together were a direful sight, and even
when they at last got into the palace. the cor RI
doris and drawing rooms were awfuly cold, in
| spite of large fires. and after the throne room
had been traversed many a woman would have
| given i've pound note for a good cup of tea
during the weary wait that ensued."
| DooR-KEEPER BAssETT's turning back the
| hands of the Senate clock recalls tho fact that
| Thaddeus Stevens received his first nomination
for Congress by similar DEVICE only the ha nds
| were turned forward. The delegates to tn 9
| nominating convention were chosen by ballot
and some one turned the clock ahead and hur-
! ried up the closing of the polls just enough to
| shut out q few opposition voters thus turning
! the scale in the great C0mmoners' favor.
| A CHATTANOOGA negro who has long owned a
desirable lot in that city recently sold it for &c.
600 and received check for the amount This
he went to get cashed. The paying teller asked
him how much he wanted in cash. "All de papah
| calls fur' he said Thereupon the teller began
counting out packages of bills, and when big
pile was placed before the negro he looked at
them in amazement and said: Use fist para
lyzed boss. Gimme ST. 30 an you kin keep de
res till call fur it,
Mr. w. JASPER BLACKBURN announces him.
self as q candidate for police judge in Little
Rock Ark. He says he has made up his mind
to 'show nerve enough to brook the special
chances-not of being counted in il not elected,
but OF being not counted ia if elected; a differ
ence with a marked, not to say remarkable, dis
tinction;" and pathetically closes his appeal to
the Little Rockers by adding: s.As ono who
| never turned the back of his hand to a friend
| nor the back of his head to an enemy, all ask
! in my old aee-and all / ever asked-is to be
dealt with as fairly and honorably, and as kindly
and generously as ever have and always shall
under like and all circumstances deal with and
| toward Others"
Mr. TULANE, the recently deceased New Jer.
sey millionaire. never married. but was always
| surrounded in his home at Princeton by some
| OF his nephews and nieces. Aside from the
great estate in New Orleans which MIR. Tulane
gave to the institution bearing his name, he was
possessed of great wealth. Although a deep
thinker, and possessing fine library as we'll as
| many pictures in his home. Mr. Tulane never
received collegiate education. but gained his
early instruction in the common schools OF his
native town. His practical philanthropy was